He sure was a HUNK in his day...he had a fantastic life...long and reasonably happy from all I have read.

Cilla...exactly the same reason and effect here in our home...we watch a movie perhaps twice a week and a British mystery two or three times a week and thats it...we have no idea what YUCKY things they have on T.V. these days.

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He was wounded at Anzio, Italy in WWII, and suffered chronic leg pain that got so bad he couldn't even mount a horse. If you take that into account, you can see it in some of his movements in the later episodes of Gunsmoke.

He was also the monster in the original 1951 release of The Thing. He stuck mainly with westerns, but he did quite a bit of acting outside of the Marshal. He wasn't the first choice for the role of Dillon; John Wayne was. He turned it down, saying, "Give it to the kid." They did, and the rest, as they say, is history.

We lost his younger brother Peter Graves last year, and now he's gone to see Peter again. So may they be reunited in the place where no shadows fall.

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He was wounded at Anzio, Italy in WWII, and suffered chronic leg pain that got so bad he couldn't even mount a horse. If you take that into account, you can see it in some of his movements in the later episodes of Gunsmoke. <sinp> I think I recall that, but I wasn't much into it. Once in a while, and thanks @Draco, how you are describing, it I do recall that much, never knew why. I'm working on 'stuck fan fiction', Pern base and I think you just given, me what I was I was needing, also that would make a good start on audio description of what going on.

He was also the monster in the original 1951 release of The Thing. He stuck mainly with westerns, but he did quite a bit of acting outside of the Marshal. He wasn't the first choice for the role of Dillon; John Wayne was. He turned it down, saying, "Give it to the kid." They did, and the rest, as they say, is history.

We lost his younger brother Peter Graves last year, and now he's gone to see Peter again. So may they be reunited in the place where no shadows fall.

And Bats remembers one his first part in the movie
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Only one guess on which part he played
RIP in peace
bats

I'm afraid you have that wrong, Bats. He wasn't in that movie. The creature was played by two different men, one on land and the other in the water. He wasn't either of them. Like I said, he was The Thing.

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He was wounded at Anzio, Italy in WWII, and suffered chronic leg pain that got so bad he couldn't even mount a horse. If you take that into account, you can see it in some of his movements in the later episodes of Gunsmoke.

He was also the monster in the original 1951 release of The Thing. He stuck mainly with westerns, but he did quite a bit of acting outside of the Marshal. He wasn't the first choice for the role of Dillon; John Wayne was. He turned it down, saying, "Give it to the kid." They did, and the rest, as they say, is history.

We lost his younger brother Peter Graves last year, and now he's gone to see Peter again. So may they be reunited in the place where no shadows fall.

What Draco said!!

When Peter Graves died last year, I looked for any sign that he and James ever worked on the same project together but couldn't find one. Odd that when the CBS News reported it, they seemed to have a picture showing the two of them on the same set.

Both their bios indicated they had good family relations with each other, but professionally they stayed apart so as not upstage the other.

I would've liked to have seen them working together, though. They were both such great actors and played very strong roles. They'll both be missed!